KKR to buy Internet Brands for $1.1 billion
 

I'm surprised nobody posted this..

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0EE12V20140603

Seeing that's the parent company of GoDaddy, I wonder what this means for vBulletin? I hope they don't screw things up more for vB.

Yeah, a statement from IB (Vbulletin) would be nice on what is going to happen, now that we going to be throw into the mess of goDaddy.

Like to know a bit in advance incase it might be better to jump ship now to another 'forum' software.

This is a high level change of parent company, the official statements states ;


So I dont really see that anything will change on a day to day basis.

Paul, you've been around long enough to know...

Did the same statement get made when IB first purchased vbulletin?

And how long did that statement hold true before there were changes?

I'm asking because one of the companies I worked for was purchased with the same statement being made. Within 2 years after the purchase, just about everybody was gone from the original company and the people that held similar jobs at the new company took over the positions from the old company.

This isnt the same as when IB purchased Jelsoft, they became the direct controllers ov vB.

This is like the parent parent company.
It last changed in 2010, and nothing changed with IB/VB as a result.

Of course, no one can predict what will happen in two years time, whether it be related to this or not. :)

Bob Brisco posted about on his blog:

http://www.bbrisco.com/2014/06/inter...comes-kkr.html

Probably based on this movement the new vbseo leaders are thinking to reopen their business.
I can't see any good thing in doing this after so many customers who left that ship.
I don't think also that this move will revitalize vbulletin.com
Make a comparison between 2011/2012 and 2014 traffic on vbulletin.com or even vbulletin.org and you'll get the numbers about how many customers packed their bags.
IB going to KKR is only a move to fulfill the pockets of board members. Nothing more.

The only real change since the purchase is we finally got in touch with the powers-that-be at Go Daddy and can now confirm Go Daddy Deluxe Linux or Windows hosting is now capable of running a basic vBulletin forum, though I would personally chose Linux over Windows given the choice.

Previously we could not get VB to run reliably on any Go Daddy shared hosting.

Don't worry. I will soon be bidding 1.2 billion. Once i get ownership I will be letting BOP, Lynn, Paul and others from here run it. :)

BOP - I know all about those Godaddy problems. I ran into them most when installing vbulletin, plug ins, etc. It is great that they finally are working that out.

I too had GoDaddy problems but have recently had great luck with their shared Linux hosting and have gotten excellent tech support. Hope they keep improving because I really like them and have had great service with my other non-forum websites for about 8 years.

GoDaddy really have problem. I getting my email - but can't respond as reply/forward page doesn't load. Been like this over the weekend.

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Thank you.

I somehow had no trouble at all with it, for over ten years.

You need to buy some lottery tickets then, yes plural so you can mail me a winning one too!

LITERALLY you're the ONLY person I've ever say their vBulletin ran fine on GoDaddy shared hosting.... BAFFLING to say the least! I've never ever ever seen anything other than an overall slowness from GoDaddy and nuff' said.

Were you not running VB3? The problems we were having were with VB4 and VB5.

Sounds funny, seems like somebody screwed up a platform that was running fine on GD until it went to version 4? How is that GD's fault?

But truly, I have 2 v3s and a v4. Nary a issue, ever on any of them.People see what they want to see. Most all criticism of GD is purely politically driven. My sites run slick and greasy fast and never any downtime.

If you can run vB3, i dont see why vB4 would be an issue, in the grand scheme, its not that different.

vB5 is a different story.

Really? As versions numbers of software increases so does minimum version and often hardware requirements increase as well.

Not to mention VB4 ran fine on virtually every other shared host, and only had a problem on GoDaddy Windows hosting, so how is that NOT "their fault" if fault is the word you want to use.

Probably some obscure setting or configuration no one else uses so things don't get tested against.

As for VB4 being like VB3, sure- but it is clear VB4 uses more resources than VB3 if you've ever run them side by side.

Godaddy Windows. I always wondered about the sanity of anyone running vBulletin on windows. I never have. But it does happen. In fact I recently bought a vBulletin 4.2 and much to my chagrin, it's on a GD windows server. Ugh.

But, oddly they never had any significant issues with their GD windows hosting, since the site started in early 2010. And today, I still have it on that GD windows server and am having zero issues. Great speed, great uptime and great service. Pleasantly surprised - not because it is GD, but because it is windows.

Apparently I'm just really really lucky or something.

You were responding to Paul's point there, not any I was making. But what he really said used the term "grand scheme" and he is correct. There's really not alot of difference between your 3.8 and your 4.2, at least nothing like the difference between these and your v5. 3.8 and 4.2 are at least, first cousins. 5 doesn't appear related to them at all, just in name only.

Your previous comment was:And I am here to tell you that simply is not true in my experience. I am not sure who "we" is, but I have had outstanding vBulletin hosting results with Godaddy Linux and now also, GD Windows. This is a ten year proven track record.

I have also helped many people over the years with their vBulletin sites and many of those were hosted on Godaddy, and they had no hosting issues either. In fact I am yet to run into any vBulletin installation on Godaddy, that had issues because of the host.

I'm the exception that proves the rule, I suppose. :D

There have always been a lot of problems with vBulletin on GoDaddy's lower tiered plan.

"Hey why can't I run this 200+ dollar application on my free/1.99 month webhosting package?! I already paid for a year"

These were common themes for nearly a decade with godaddy. When you paid for their higher level hosting packages, _most_ of the problems went away.

What they call "economy" hosting? I have no experience with that, I didn't like the specs. I went with "Deluxe" which is about 75 bucks a year and never looked back.

I am not trying to be argumentative, but in the last few posts we're now seeing some specifics instead of blanket statements. Now it's their shared windows, and their rock bottom cheapie plan. And I have no doubt at all that you're going to have trouble with just about any platform, on just about any host, if you're on shared hosting for only $24 a year. Makes perfect sense to me, you get what you pay for.

That's why I said to buy some lottery tickets, I wasn't joking!

You know how that works though - you can't pick your luck! :D